A month ago, the company AppLovin announced its decision to sell all its gaming studios for $900 million and focus on its advertising business. Business Insider has learned that the buyer will be the British company Tripledot Studios.

On Monday, March 3rd, Astrum Entertainment unveiled the beta version of their proprietary launcher — Astrum Play. The company positions it as a gaming platform of its own development. App2Top spoke with Sergey Efremov, Chief Operating Officer of Astrum Entertainment, about the reasons behind the service’s launch and its immediate future.

The Financial Times newspaper published a list of the top 1,000 European companies with the fastest revenue growth from 2020 to 2023. Among these, three gaming companies were highlighted: Nitro Games, CrazyGames, and Matchingham Games.

Layoffs are taking place at PlayStation Studios Visual Arts, as reported by Kotaku. According to its sources, for some employees of the studio, their last working day will be March 7.

On March 4, Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced for PC. According to SteamDB, the updated version of GTA V attracted a peak of 187,059 concurrent players on Steam.

The list of top-grossing products on Steam for the last week was predictably topped by Monster Hunter Wilds. It claimed the revenue leader title from the free-to-play hit Counter-Strike 2, which dropped to second place following the release of Capcom’s new title.

The developers of Godot have released a new version of their engine, numbered 4.4. It has been eight months since the release of the previous version, 4.3.

The Finnish indie studio Yrdvaab announced that they have saved their game Ephemeris from closure. The project was almost abandoned following an unsuccessful crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo, but the developers managed to secure 200,000 euros from investors in Germany.

A new fund has entered the gaming market, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. According to its information, Tripledot Studios co-founder Akin Babayigit has launched a fund called Arcadia Gaming Advisors, which will support mobile game developers.

Monster Hunter Wilds has become Capcom’s fastest-selling game. The company announced that it took the new release only three days to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.

The British company Sumo Group has parted ways with the publisher Secret Mode, which released Still Wakes the Deep, A Little to the Left, Dear Esther, and numerous other games. It sold the publisher for an undisclosed amount.

The Chinese giant Tencent has acquired an additional 1.11% of shares in the Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa, which owns the studio FromSoftware. This is reported by the Nikkei newspaper, citing Tencent’s financial statements.

Kenji Ozawa is one of the two game directors behind the Japanese action RPG Visions of Mana. He has announced the launch of his own studio, named Studio Sasanqua.

Last year, Turkish developers released a total of about 90 games for consoles and PCs, as calculated by the company GameDev.ist. Their total revenue at the end of 2024 exceeded $75 million.

At the beginning of next month, the annual conference for computer and mobile game developers GameDev CityFest will be held in Novosibirsk.

Analyst Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo identified the top-grossing new releases on Steam for February. Despite being released on the last day of the month, Monster Hunter Wilds managed to make it into the top ten.

The number of concurrent Steam users exceeded 40 million for the first time, Monster Hunter Wilds became the fifth largest game by online presence in Steam’s history, and downloads for Pokémon TCG Pocket reached 100 million. Here are the major events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

The team at perelesoq provided detailed advice on how to announce a game on Steam and shared their own experience.

At the end of 2024, the market value of the Chinese company miHoYo reached $24.2 billion, according to data from the Hurun Research Institute. This valuation allowed the creators of Genshin Impact to secure the 48th place in the annual ranking of the most valuable companies in China.